Dostoevsky's Dream of A Ridiculous Man
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- Fyodor Dostoevsky’s short story Сон смешного человека translated into English as The Dream of a Ridiculous Man tells the story of a lonely and despairing man who has nothing to live for so he is on verge of ending it all when something incredible happens. The Dream of a Ridiculous Man was published in 1877, towards the end of Dostoevsky’s own life, two years before he published his greatest novel, The Brothers Karamazov and 4 years before his own death in 1881. So this short story came at a time when Dostoevsky had experienced life from the lowest of the low to the highest. As usual, I will tell you the story and discuss its themes and how it can teach us about the purpose of life. This is perhaps one of the most uplifting stories you will ever hear. So stay tuned until the very end, when everything is revealed that might bring tears to your eyes.
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Such a great video about one of Dostoevsky's most underrated stories. Curiously do you ever intend to do a video about that Russian masterpiece - The Master and Margarita?
Hell yeah, amazingly profound story. The transformative star and little girl reminds me of Jung’s work on the child archetype.
Perhaps it's time I read Jung!
Would highly recommend.
I had a similar thought! Jung was onto something - these archetypes really do show up across cultures and time.
"..... to love life and live for others....."
Yeah, I agree. Simple instructions on how to be happy. Thanks!
‘Dreams of a Ridiculous Man’ is mandatory reading. ❤️
Love these Dostoyevsky videos! Keep em coming!
As always wonderful, both you and Dostevsky. 😊
I feel the need to read that story. Dostoïevski has always been a favorite author of mine but I have yet to read that one. What an incredible author. Russia has had so many great writers.
And I'm glad it mentioned Montaigne, whose Essays have been a lifetime bedside companion lecture.
Welcome back and thank you for the analysis. Loved it.
Thank you!
Good grief - I am overwhelmed. Thank you so much for this. I felt as though all my negatives were being relentlessly shot to pieces. WOW! 😢
That’s wonderful!
O! What swooning resonating genius! Thank you so very much!✨
You make Dostoevsky more appealing! A story I must now read!
His favorite book was Don Quixote, so there's some absurdity in that.
I just love that story. It is my absolute favorite short story. Thank You for doing all these great video analyais about our greatest litterature.
Thank you!
Read the book
thank you for this video
Thank you very much❤️🌷
Excellent! Thanks!
Thank you so much for the all great content. It really helped me to navigate the difficulties I am going through. ✌️
Glad it was helpful. Feel free to get in touch if you need to talk.
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your vids help my introduction to literature. there’s lots out there and it’s challenging to sort the crap from the good, so u serve as a compass, ty for that. Still got some ways to go before I can make a reading list though
Thank you! Glad it was helpful.
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Now you’re famous. Montaigne advised against it oops
Thankyou
I love "Crime and Punishment ",
Wonderful Painting of poverty in Hard times.
I started,
The Brothers K
I was lost
My friend, I don't know how you don't have more subs. I've recently found your channel and have seen several of your videos. It's clear you put time and effort into them and that's commendable.
I appreciate it.
Another great analysis Matt! Thank you! I wonder if this is as much about Locus of Control? And from that POV, a real contrast to Twain's - The Mysterious Stranger?
Thank you
Could you do a video sometime on Tolstoy's The Kreutzer Sonata ?
Never read this book but it felt like audio biography, an before that au up there.
Cervantes. Thank you.
Welcome back! I hope you had a very good break.
I wish we can find a one conclusive explanation to the mystery of the human soul and a recipe for happiness.Do you have one?
Just great. Thanks.
Thank you!
Since everyone is at different place (or stage of) in their life, there is no one recipe to cook everyone a happy meal (not that one). we have grown up with different experiences, tastes and exposed to different ideas, happiness is something we should craft by ourselves. happiness is like a perfect meal. It doesnt exist. Dostoevsky says dont look for happiness, but just be. as you read this comment, just be happy that you're alive and well. Life is a gift, so dont get attached to it too much, or dont take it too serious. Maybe I'm rambling here.
@@Fiction_Beast Not at all. you have a rich understanding of humanity and life,
Now I think I really need to read Dostoevsky.
woke up from a long sleep. He yawned, stretched, and at last opened his eyes completely. For two minutes, however, he lay in his bed without moving, as though he were not yet quite certain whether he were awake or still asleep, whether all that was going on around him were real and actual, or the continuation of his confused dreams.
@ 2:58 that transition with the words was trippy woah
What do you mean?
Knowledge is not "lies". But it can lead to effective lies by omitting true knowledge, withholding it from others.
There was a very strange feature in this case, strange because of its extremely rare occurrence. This man had once been brought to the scaffold in company with several others, and had had the sentence of death by shooting passed upon him for some political crime. Twenty minutes later he had been reprieved and some other punishment substituted; but the interval between the two sentences, twenty minutes, or at least a quarter of an hour, had been passed in the certainty that within a few minutes he must die. I was very anxious to hear him speak of his impressions during that dreadful time, and I several times inquired of him as to what he thought and felt. He remembered everything with the most accurate and extraordinary distinctness, and declared that he would never forget a single iota of the experience. ‘About twenty paces from the scaffold, where he had stood to hear the sentence, were three posts, fixed in the ground, to which to fasten the criminals (of whom there were several). The first three criminals were taken to the posts, dressed in long white tunics, with white caps drawn over their faces, so that they could not see the rifles pointed at them. Then a group of soldiers took their stand opposite to each post. My friend was the eighth on the list, and therefore he would have been among the third lot to go up. A priest went about among them with a cross: and there was about five minutes of time left for him to live. ‘He said that those five minutes seemed to him to be a most interminable period, an enormous wealth of time; he seemed to be living, in these minutes, so many lives that there was no need as yet to think of that last moment, so that he made several arrangements, dividing up the time into portions-one for saying farewell to his companions, two minutes for that; then a couple more for thinking over his own life and career and all about himself; and another minute for a last look around. He remembered having divided his time like this quite well. While saying good- bye to his friends he recollected asking one of them some very usual everyday question, and being much interested in the answer. Then having bade farewell, he embarked upon those two minutes which he had allotted to looking into himself; he knew beforehand what he was going to think about. He wished to put it to himself as quickly and clearly as possible, that here was he, a living, thinking man, and that in three minutes he would be nobody; or if somebody or something, then what and where? He thought he would decide this question once
for all in these last three minutes. A little way off there stood a church, and its gilded spire glittered in the sun. He remembered staring stubbornly at this spire, and at the rays of light sparkling from it. He could not tear his eyes from these rays of light; he got the idea that these rays were his new nature, and that in three minutes he would become one of them, amalgamated somehow with them. ‘The repugnance to what must ensue almost immediately, and the uncertainty, were dreadful, he said; but worst of all was the idea, ‘What should I do if I were not to die now? What if I were to return to life again? What an eternity of days, and all mine! How I should grudge and count up every minute of it, so as to waste not a single instant!’ He said that this thought weighed so upon him and became such a terrible burden upon his brain that he could not bear it, and wished they would shoot him quickly and have done with it.’
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Good story.
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Amazing video, which books of Dostoevsky would you recommend me as a initiation? I was thinking about “The Brothers Karamazov”, “The Idiot” and “Crime and Punishment”
Crime and punishment -shorter
@@Fiction_Beast Crime and Punishment absolutely blew me away, most significant book i think I’ve read. It’s way shorter than Karamazov, and the plot is immediately interesting.
@@Fiction_Beast Crime and Punishment absolutely blew me away, most significant book i think I’ve read. It’s way shorter than Karamazov, and the plot is immediately interesting. I second this recommendation.
The experience of the main character is similar to the Buddha when he was under the Bodhi tree. Except it was the Buddha who was helped (given rice) by a little girl. Interesting that they ultimately came to different conclusions.
Can you clarify different conclusion?
On a certain level, we have a drug store in our brain, the neurochemicals that show up in flow: so dopamine, norepinephrine, anandamide, endorphins, and serotonin. If you were to try to cocktail the street drug version of that, right, you're trying to blend like heroin and speed and coke and acid and weed- and point is, you can't do it. It turns out the brain can cocktail all of 'em at once, which is why people will prefer flow to almost any experience on Earth. It's our favorite experience. It's the most addictive experience on Earth. Why? 'Cause it cocktails five or six of the largest pleasure drugs the brain can produce. We're all capable of so much more than we know. That is a commonality across the board. And one of the big reasons is we're all hardwired for flow, and flow is a massive amplification of what's possible for ourselves.
choline Wilson mentioned this story , and used the protagonist as example for the outsider
is there a transcript of this review?
It's on my patreon.
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إذا كان الله موجود فلماذا يجعل أطفال أبرياء في ظروف مزرية قاسية الله موجود في عقول من هم عاجزون و خائفون من التفكير
I'm a bit confused about the ending.
"I tracked out that little girl and I shall go on and on."
Did he track her down and help her? In return, giving his life purpose or meaning to live on?
Yes, he found the little girl and helping her and her mother has given the man a purpose now.
@@Fiction_Beast oh good! That is a happy ending... Great video by the way. I just subscribed :)
Just sit there to contemplate it all after you come back because you're gonna see such
crazy and radical things in these trips. That when you come back you're gonna be like what the fuck was that? And you're gonna spend a week just in the shower, what the fuck was that? Cooking your food, what the fuck was that? Driving to work, what the fuck was that? Sitting at work doing your work, what the fuck was that? Thinking that. Trying to wrap your mind around it. Try to remember and trying to figure it out and that's a very valuable process.
suffering little kids we still don't have the answer....... the acceptance of death and love accept our man. our shortcoming :) being happy and wanting to be happy ....... being and wanting
in a Chinese song 在我心中谁是真心英雄， 平凡的人给我最大感动。
This screen has absolutely no limits it can display or render anything that you can imagine and even more. Right now it happens to be rendering and displaying what's right here. What we can do though is imagine that to this screen runs a giant wire and this wire hooks up to this giant mixing board with hundreds of knobs and each one of these knobs can be tuned and adjusted fine-tuned to change what is being displayed. It's like if you twist this knob here the colors will become more vivid, you twist this knob here the colors will dim, you twist this knob here the sounds will go wonky, they'll become louder or softer, you twist this knob here and you'll feel emotion you'll feel love or anger or hatred or jealousy or sadness, you twist this knob over here and your body morphs, your hand will morph into a tentacle, you twist a little bit more it turns into a claw, you twist a little bit more it turns into a wing, you twist a little more turns into something else and you can twist all of these and all of these knobs control everything that's being rendered and displayed on this screen called consciousness. Imagine I twist a knob of consciousness and if I twist this knob you won't be able to tell the difference between people and animals anymore and inanimate objects, there will be no difference between a table your mother and a dog if I twist this knob. Imagine other knob that I can twist, if I twist this knob time stops. Imagine that I twist a knob and you stop being human and you turn into a beer bottle. I twist the knob again and you turn into a pinecone. I twist the knob again you turn into a kangaroo. I twist the knob some more and you turn into the entire human race. Not a single person, the entire human race. I twist the knob some more you turn into the planet the entire planet. I twist the knob some more and you turn into the colour red you're not a living being anymore you're the colour red. Sounds trippy. Sounds impossible right and yet there is such a knob and many many other knobs. There are so many knobs that do so many freaky things.
Спасибо тебе, друг мой! Благодаря тебе мне нравится изучать английский язык.
Thank you!
It puts you into a state where nothing matters in a good way. You truly don't give a shit about anything and you're just happy as fuck as a result, because nothing matters. Nothing matters, nothing means anything, there's nothing to do, there's no point, there's no goal but there's also no boredom, there's no negative meanings attached to the meaninglessness, it's just perfectly meaningless and it's awesome. You're basically just like sitting like a cat on a windowsill enjoying whatever experience is before it, just being and it feels amazing. 🦄
On a certain level, we have a Dostojevskij in our brain, the neurochemicals that show up in flow: so dopamine, norepinephrine, anandamide, endorphins, and serotonin. If you were to try to cocktail the street drug version of that, right, you're trying to blend like heroin and speed and coke and acid and weed- and point is, you can't do it. It turns out Dostojevskij can cocktail all of 'em at once, which is why people will prefer flow to almost any experience on Earth. It's our favorite experience. It's the most addictive experience on Earth. Why? 'Cause it cocktails five or six of the largest pleasure drugs that Dostojevskij can produce. We're all capable of so much more than we know. That is a commonality across the board. And one of the big reasons is we're all hardwired for flow, and flow is a massive amplification of what's possible for ourselves.
Oh dear god I thought this said "Dostojewski IS a ridiculous man" and expected a "roast" or some pseudo-deep shit about him not being a good author. Lol I'm glad it's not, good video.
Not gonna lie. I’ve been sneaky with the title. Glad you enjoyed it.
Dostoevsky was enlightened.
What are you saying in russian in the beginning of the video ? Nice video otherwise 👍
Hello dear friends
And so many think because then happened, now isn't. But didn't I mention? The ongoing WOW is happening, right now! We are all co-authors of this dancing exuberance, where even our inabilities are having a roast. We are the authors of ourselves, co-authoring a gigantic Dostoevsky novel starring clowns! This entire thing we're involved with, called the world, is an opportunity to exhibit how exciting alienation can be. Life is a matter of a miracle that is collected over time by moments flabbergasted to be in each others' presence.
For a sec I thought I clicked on a video with language I don't understand
It’s Russian
Dostoievski based on the book of Ecleasiasts in Bible in very meanings
The absurdist Inn the beginning, seeing the star "the hope" made him decide to commit suicide. But then he had the dream which changed his perception.
Dostoyevsky being known for his absurdism, I see "Dream of a ridiculous man" as the most anti-Dostoyevsky work by him.
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Joe Biden said it too, the key to getting on with life is finding a purpose, I´m still searching
“You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. And I’m not joking,”
-Joe Biden
Lets go Brandon
FJB
Are you Iranian?
No but I want to
здравствуйте
Кто-то из иностранцев читает сейчас Достоевского?
I m read,from Thailand.
Hi
@@Kithzer It's better to ask "Are there any Russians who still read Dostoevsky?"
@@bladerunner9531 Читают, не все но читают. Я этот вопрос задал ибо думал, что в связи с сегодняшними событиями его перестали читать.
I'm going to shower you with attention and my awareness. I'm going to give you a lot of my time. I'm going to be in physical proximity to you. I'm going to touch you, hold you, cuddle you. I'm going to try to connect with you physically, emotionally, intellectually, spiritually. I'm going to take good care of you. I'm going to care about your needs. I'm going to help you to meet your needs. I'm going to help you to survive. I'm going to shelter you from excessive suffering, fear and trauma. I'm going to have your back. I'm going to defend you and be loyal to you. I'm going to take on your agenda as my own. I'm going to make you an extension of me. I'm going to treat you as well as i would treat myself. I'm going to be happy for you when you succeed. I'm going to want for you what you most want for yourself. I'm going to sacrifice for you and work on your behalf. I'm going to support you nurture you and encourage you. I'm going to cheerlead you. I'm going to encourage your self-exploration, self-expression and self-actualization. I'm going to respect your sovereignty as a consciousness. I'm not going to try to manipulate you, control you, dominate you or exploit you. I'm going to totally accept you and never judge you. I'm going to value you for your sake and appreciate you and see your intrinsic beauty. I'm not going to need anything from you and I'm not going to make you a tool to satisfy my own needs. I'm going to respect your point of view, wanting to understand your point of view, wanting to understand you, your uniqueness, taking the time to deeply get to know you. I'm not going to force my agenda or point of view on you. I'm going to listen to you and care about your interests and share similar interests with you. I'm going to develop togetherness with you and collaborate with you. I'm going to be there for you when you're down and hopeless. I'm going to be there for you when you're lonely. I'm going to validate your feelings, sharing your emotions with you, empathizing with you. Your pain is going to be my pain. I'm going to meet you where you're at, at your developmental level. I'm going to forgive you for your mistakes.
I'm going to be patient with you. I'm going to see the good in you even when you don't see the good in yourself. I'm going to be generous and kind. I'm going to give you verbal approval and praise. I'm going to compliment you on your uniqueness. I'm going to keep my promises to you. I'm going to keep my peace with you, avoid conflict with you. I'm going to tell the truth to you. You're going to be able to fully trust me and I'm never going to cash in on that trust. I'm going to see your realness, warts and shadow and all as you truly are. I'm going to deeply appreciate the finite portion of consciousness that you are and I'm going to accept your selfishness whenever you have the urge to be selfish. Now ask yourself on a scale of 0 to 10 how loved do you feel? Open Your Eyes. 😂🦘🦘🧨
What?
So not having a family results in a meaningless life ?
Uwu
Eu li esse livro e não entendi nada kkk
não sei como está na tradução brasileira, mas no começo ele diz ter descoberto a "verdade" que na literatura russa as vezes quer dizer "palavra de Deus" (e eu acho que foi isso que ele quis dizer). No sonho, ele é levado para um lugar (que para mim é como o paraíso) onde todos são felizes e se amam. Por fim, ele (o homem ridículo) corrompeu essas pessoas, fazendo o mundo que antes era o paraíso se tornar algo parecido com o nosso. Ele nnão lembra o que ele fez para corromper as pessoas, mas ele sabe que foi ele. Quando ele acorda, ele se lembra da menina que pediu ajuda pra ele, e resolve ir em busca dela e ajudá-la
man is only responsible for his actions but not his wishes you cant force him to love society. thats slavery.
There’s nothing inherently wrong with individualism taken to its logical conclusion.
The problem is the faux individualism and faux collectivism causing cognitive dissonance.
People want to project their own “success” by means of individualistic “merits”.
And how absurd isn’t it to be an individualist seeking validation from others?
The pure individualist have little regard for what others might and might not think of him or her. Thus the individualist see no purpose in projecting toward others.
The pure individualist furthermore understand the importance of others as a means for averting existential threat. After all; we all gotta eat and then somebody (else) better grow crops.
The pure individualist claim exclusivity without possession, while the pure collectivist claim possession without exclusivity.
Probably very interresting but someone else should read it...
I read it for you
Aka, The Kingdom of God Is Within You.
L. Tolstoy
A bit sexist imo to only talk about men as needing to protect others, women do too
that's not the point.
Why is suffering of kids more important than adults?
Children are the future. They are the ones who will feed you, and will wipe your bum when you are too old to work, to take care of yourself. Or even remember that you even asked this question.
I guess it’s evolutionary because when kids survive the species survive.
@@Fiction_Beast That's what I was getting at....Our moral intutitions are arbitrary and not much more than survival imperatives. Darwinism when understood properly is a nihilism.
Darwinism is no nihilism because the survival of the species gives us a purpose: to procreate.
@@Fiction_Beast You can't turn a scientific theory into a moral imperative. There is nothing in darwinian theory that organisms have to survive. 99% of all species that have ever existed are extinct..
And you can survive by doing 'evil' acts as well.
nietsche >>>>>>>fyodor.
There will never be a world without so called tribalism and if there could be it would be a meaningless dystopia, not some higher purpose. Both hate and love, if they are to be actual and real, cannot be universal and inclusive but instead particular and exclusive. There is no universal love of humankind which could somehow transcend real life and work as a motive force towards anything other than a catastrophe.
It’s me a man without a tribe talking. Sour grape? so yes tribe is the best way to survive. But it’s double edged sword, while great for camaraderie but people also get exploited and lose their sense of individuality
There are thick and thin relationships, much like deep breaths and shallow ones, but you never value the shallow ones until you can't breathe. So, never take anything for granted, because you never know when you'll have to rely on the tenuous strength of thin, sometimes gossamer thin relations. The kindness of strangers is kindness nonetheless. It should be acknowledged often, even more than the grudging hypocrisy of supposed kin, who take full advantage of your kinship, and leave you broke.
@@BigHenFor that was profound and well said.
Jesus is love
Bruh i came in here to leave a disslike but its just a book analasys.
I’m curious what did you expect? Genuine question.
BULLSHIT ALGORITHM
It could be worse.
Too much time on your hands, to think?